34,000 Votes from nowhere in Milwaukee.

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Joel McNally: Milwaukee's vote count is raw meat for the GOP
By Joel McNally

Perhaps never before in history have votes been counted so carefully without even bothering to look at which candidate received those votes.

Having faced unfounded Republican charges of vote fraud in the past, Milwaukee just completed a massive hand recounting of ballots to determine exactly how many votes were cast in last week's primary.

It turns out that about 46,500 Milwaukee voters cast ballots in last week's primary election, not 80,000 as the city previously reported.

The amazing thing is that despite originally being off by nearly 34,000 votes, the city's laborious recount of all the ballots didn't even bother to check to see whether any of the vote totals for individual candidates also may have been miscounted.

The city just wanted to know how many people voted and couldn't believe its own computer records because of what it described as a programming error.

Meanwhile, out in heavily Republican Waukesha County, which is apparently immune to accusations of vote fraud, voters not only found many new voting machines inoperable, but erroneous vote totals were initially posted declaring the loser of an assembly race to be the winner.

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